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Development of classified military communications satellite terminated over cost, scheduling and difficulty with payload

China is for the first time keeping at least one nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine constantly at sea, according to a Pentagon report - adding pressure on the United States and its allies as they try to counter Beijing's growing military.

The United States has said the world faces the gravest nuclear danger since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis because of remarks by Russian leader Vladimir Putin during the Ukraine conflict, but Moscow says its position has been misinterpreted.

The White House says President Joe Biden’s warnings that the world is at risk of nuclear "Armageddon” were meant to convey that no one should underestimate the extraordinary danger if Russia deploys tactical nuclear weapons in its war against Ukraine

Request is widely seen as symbolic, as moving nuclear warheads closer to Russia would make them less militarily useful

Swedish arms watchdog says nuclear arsenals set to grow in coming years, reversing a decline seen since the Cold War.

A US 2023 budget request shows a UK is one of several European countries where investment is under way at ‘special weapons’ storage sites

Russian President Vladimir Putin conjured the specter of nuclear war during the last week's fierce fighting in Ukraine, instructing Russia's military to place nuclear forces on "high combat alert," a "special regime of combat duty."